Liquid Mix v2.0 Now Available

Functional features for Focusriteâ€™s DSP Compression and EQ processor 16/07/07

Focusrite have announced that the multi-channel DSP-
based EQ and Compression tool, Liquid Mix, has now stepped up a gear with
the release of brand new version 2.0 software, available as a free download
from the website. They tell us that the software provides some extremely useful improvements
and several solutions to popular requests from Liquid Mix users, including
enhanced interaction between software and hardware, as well as expanded
latency options.
First up is the implementation of a side-chain facility, allowing for de-essing or
other frequency-selective compression. Pressing the â€˜side-chainâ€™ button in any
of the 32 instances of Liquid Mix activates an eighth EQ band, which appears
on the EQ graph within the software window and can be selected as low-,
high- or band-pass, alongside frequency, gain and Q settings. This side-chain
band can be monitored separately and then sent to the compressor with the
touch of a button.
Another key improvement involves the relationship between the Liquid Mix
hardware control surface and each of the active software instances. Version
2.0 ensures that the hardware can now follow (as a default setting) whichever
instance of the Liquid Mix plug-in is active on the screen.
Liquid Mix version 2.0 also delivers the ability to adjust latency settings. This
potentially enables Liquid Mix to be used as a tracking processor, since
latency figures have now been reduced by up to 75%. It also allows the user
to set a minimum latency from one of 6 options, spanning 264 to 8200
samples and ensuring operation with those DAWs that only offer fixed buffer
sizes above 2056 samples (such as Bias Peak, Steinberg WaveLab, Adobe
Audition, Sony Sound Forge, Vegas and ACID).
Lastly, the Liquid Mix sample rate settings can now be changed without
having to worry about any open instances of the software. When the sample
rate is changed, all instances will reconfigure according to the new settings. Pricing and Availability:
Free download from the Liquid Mix downloads page
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